YuYuKo will EaT YoU

The backgrounds in the album booklet are extremely beautiful, but it’s kind of hard to read the font in some places ^^;

This may be the shortest song I’ve translated, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t great :3

I love Pizuya :D

Notes:
“Red Thread of Fate” it is said that all fated lovers are tied to each other by a red thread of fate. I was going to say “Severed” instead of “Interrupted” but rather that really “severed” it’s that the night cannot go on forever and love is interrupted – it’s uncertain whether it will have a chance to continue (basically I’m being a little more optimistic, and the literal meaning is much closer to interrupted).

“Soiree” is (apparently – I’m no expert) a French word for an evening dinner party, This can mean that their meeting is at a dinner party, or like a dinner party in that it has a definite end and those involved may not know each other well enough to see each other again.

I try to stay away from overusing that “reflected in my eyes” phrase because it’s not entirely accurate (it’s closer to “what my eyes project (into my mind)” – but that doesn’t sound very romantic does it?), but I think it has it’s place here.

There are two words for “touch” in Japanese, and they are very different. This is the “lighter” version – so think of the brushing of fingers against fingers.

^Picture spam to commemorate the first vocal arrangement ever (to the best of my knowledge) of Yuki’s theme, 真紅の少女～Crimson Dead, from 東方怪綺談～Mystic Square.

I’m not sure most of you know about the two magicians Yuki (meaning “Snow”) and Mai (meaning “Dance”). Yuki is a fire witch and rather talkative and Mai is an ice witch and rather not, and they both live in the ice fields of Makai. You fight them together and depending on which one you shot the most, one of them falls and the other one fights you alone. If you defeat Yuki first, Mai laughs and says that Yuki was only holding her back. (Ironically, Mai has easier spellcards – if you want a song to go with her see [link]). If you defeat Mai first, Yuki gets mad and rages. (She almost goes Utsuho on you ^^;) If you want to put a game setting on this song, you might say that Yuki is defeated first and hears what Mai has to say. (Of course we know Mai’s just tsundere :3) and this is a response. Yuki the fire witch falling into the icy seas (of her emotions! Metaphors!). Sad if she ever hurt Mai, sympathetic to her feelings.

Notes:
The location of “This uncertain and invisible world” falls right in the grammatical position to make it equal to “my feelings”. My feelings are/make an uncertain and invisible (more specifically in this case “made invisible”) world.

Now I finally understand all those tweets about “Dark Akyuu!” by RD-Sounds that I was reading months ago.

From 156 days ago:
最近黒阿求がブームなんでそれつながりなんですけど、割と阿求ってハイソサエティというか、いいとこのお嬢さん的暮らしをしてるイメージが強い感じで、それゆえに、たとえば幻想郷を離れて一人で暮らすことを余儀なくされたりとかしたときに見られるかも知れない生き汚ない阿求の期待が高まる
つまり生きるために割と悪いこともやったり、自分の体を使ってイケナイことに身を委ねちゃう阿求とか…なんていうか…その…下品なんですが…フフ…

”
Lately there’s been this Dark Akyuu boom and this is related to that, but well… Akyuu really has that “High Society” feel, or rather, you get a strong impression that she’s living a pampered life. Because of that there’s a lot of people that want to know what she would be like under different circumstances. For example, for whatever reason she has to leave Gensoukyou and make it on her own.

In other words, in order to get by she does some relatively bad things, ends up using her body to do well… “naughty” things and gets carried away with it… and that sort of Akyuu is well.. you know… vulgar and… fufu (*low laugh*).
”

Like all RD-Sounds’s songs, this one is spectacular. Also, if you’re interested in Bungo (Nara and pre-Nara even in this case – although if it’s stictly Nara there’s a misuse of the の particle as a possessive but whatever :3) then pay attention. I didn’t go out of my way to explain things in the notes too much, but I did parse the words out for you (romaji).

… I want to be able to write like that font.

Notes:
As for the romaji. I’ve contemplated doing every ん sound as n’ but I usually limit it when clarity is needed: shin’i or when there’s two n’s placed beside each other: sen’nen. But this time around I’m going to be a little more trigger happy with it, because of some grammatical things. If you know any Japanese and are paying attention, you probably noticed that the middle section is completely in hiragana (except for names) and that half the romaji doesn’t seem to match up. Well, the middle section of the song is written in a style before the government decided to rewrite the spelling of all words to match the way they’re pronounced.

The first stanza is a reference to the 484th poem in the 万葉集 Man’youshuu.

484 – (難波天皇の妹が、大和にいらっしゃる皇兄に奉った御歌一首)

一日社 人母待吉 長氣乎 如此耳待者 有不得勝
ひとひこそ ひともまちよき ながきけを かくのみまたば ありかつましじ

There are quite a few other references as well.

“Violent passion, enough to scatter pressed flowers.” – If you don’t have the purest of purest of innocent of minds then I don’t have to tell you or explain to you what this means. Incidentally the flowers are camellias (red – it’s what Akyuu wears in her hair). Just saying.

That we met by chance
Was the start to my disheveled unrest
But it is not that I cannot bear to think of you
On the contrary
When I think of you, my heart takes to the skies
And all the more it is just impossible for me to wait for you

But though I might find another whose wishes were mine
No dreams begun with lust would ever find fulfillment
My only response was to increase each feeling’s intensity
Violent passion, enough to scatter pressed flowers.

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